diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Events.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Events.js
index 59306c943e..db979b4874 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Events.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Events.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* Copyright (c) 2006 MetaCarta, Inc., published under the BSD license.
  * See http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt for the full
  * text of the license. */
- 
+
 /**
  * @class
  */
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ OpenLayers.Events.prototype = {
 
         // execute all callbacks registered for specified type
         var listeners = this.listeners[type];
-        if (listeners != null) {
+        if ((listeners != null) && (listeners.length > 0)) {
             for (var i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) {
                 var callback = listeners[i];
                 var continueChain;